Today’s Friday photo features, what I affectionately call the “water splash” in Sutton Park. I have many a happy childhood memories splashing bare feet in summer or with wellies in winter. This is a section of longmore brook near Wyndley Pool. Wyndley ...
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Today’s Friday photo is of the lunar stones, which were commissioned to commemorate the famous Lunar Society. This was a society made up of members of prominent midland industrialists, philosophers and intellectuals, which included James Watt and Josiah Wedgewood. Nine lunar stones were ...
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This Friday photo is of the four civic centre tower blocks in Civic Close and Brindley Drive. In the post war era the new solution to the social housing crisis sweeping the country, was that of the high rise “tower block”. As ...
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Today’s Friday photo is taken in Witton Cemetery. The cemetery opened in 1863 and was consecrated by the Bishop of Worcester in May of that year. It was the only cemetery owned by the corporation of Birmingham, until it acquired others from 1911. ...
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Today’s Friday photo we head over the border to our neighbours in the Black Country. The photo is of the Jerushah Tilted Cottage, located in Black Country Living Museum. The cottage was original constructed around 1840 at Coopers bank in Gornal Wood. ...
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Today’s Friday photo is the Lad in the Lane Pub in Bromford Lane, Erdington. Grade II listed in 1982 historians estimated the original frame to date back to the 1400’s. In 2006 dendrochronology testing of timbers confirmed that oldest part of the ...
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Today’s Friday photo is the Sleeping Iron Giant, situated at the junction of Garrison Lane and Cattral Road in Bordesley Green. The sculpture is a large tilted cast-iron head with sleeping eyes and a cheek resting precariously on a grass mound. The ...
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Today’s Friday Photo is Brookvale Park Lake. This lake, along with the nearby Witton Lakes, were formed artificially in the 19th century as drinking water reservoirs for Birmingham. The lake is though fed from two natural brooks that rise from Kingstanding and ...
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The magnet club building & sports ground was original owned by the famous Witton based company GEC (General Electric Company), which was an important local employer for many years. The building and grounds were purpose built in the 1920’s as recreational centre ...
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Today’s Friday photo is of the Old Rectory at Sheldon Country Park. The building was originally used as the rectory for the nearby St Giles Church, but this was deemed too small by the then incumbent, so then became a 17th Century ...
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